Print Email Facebook Twitter The development of the Dutch Flood safety strategy Title The development of the Dutch Flood safety strategy Author Voorendt, M.Z. Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Hydraulic Engineering Date 2015-12-11 Abstract This technical report sketches the main development of the flood defence system in the Netherlands. It concentrates on the establishment of the flood safety level and flood risk reduction strategies. First developments in the study of loading and soil properties until 1960 are described in Chapter 2. The storm surge of 1953 accelerated the process towards a more scientifically based approach. The philosophy of the Delta Committee is explained in Chapter 3. After the publication of the Delta Report in 1960, it lasted until 1996 until the policy was incorporated in a law. The developments in this period are described in Chapter 4 and the legislation of the safety standard can be found in Chapter 5. Newest developments are described in Chapters 6 and 7. Subject floodsafetyflooding To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:2513d81a-710a-410d-ba61-fd613b6319e1 Publisher TU Delft, department Hydraulic Engineering ISBN 9789074767187 Source Communications on Hydraulic and Geotechnical engineering, 2015-01 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type report Rights (c)2015 Voorendt, M.Z. Files PDF CommHyd-2015-01.pdf 4.11 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:2513d81a-710a-410d-ba61-fd613b6319e1/datastream/OBJ/view